GRE Word List
SINECURE
an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income
The meaning of the word sinecure is an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |